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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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